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Nature Medicine  8, 16 - 18 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0102-16

Pten-uating neural growth

Sean J. Morrison

Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Internal Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
seanjm@umich.edu

Conditional deletion of the Pten tumor suppressor gene in the nervous system demonstrates that Pten is an important regulator of proliferation in neural stem cells and soma size in neurons.

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